The Clinton Foundation's donors Nov 4, 2009
The Sunday Times Hay Festival. $150,000. (Salon)
Giant trees 'to clear excess CO2' Aug 27, 2009
Page last updated at 21:07 GMT, Saturday, 31 May 2008 22:07 UK. Giant trees 'to clear excess CO2. (BBC News -- Science)
Sting's message Jun 1, 2009
But no-one in the audience at the Hay festival doubted the passion in his voice when he warned against scaling down music lessons for children. The singer and bassist made The Police the world's biggest band in the 1980s and recently led them on a money-spinning global reunion tour. (BBC News -- UK)
Tiny village hits El Gordo lottery jackpot May 31, 2009
The Hay festival offshoot in the Castilian town of Segovia is now in its third year. Have a look at some of its stars. (Yahoo News -- Gambling & Lottery)
What is it about the British that annoys Jeremy Paxman? May 31, 2009
He lamented what he regards as Britain's obsession with TV during a talk on Victorian art given at the Hay Festival of Literature in mid-Wales. Mr Paxman said: "Watching TV is the most popular leisure activity in Britain. I find that very depressing.". (BBC News -- UK)
Is this man the UK's 'last monarchist'? May 30, 2009
Speaking at the the Hay Festival of Literature, in mid Wales, he said the title "just wouldn't suit me". He then explained that whatever replaced it would only be worse. (BBC News -- UK)
Britain terse over poetic verse May 29, 2009
Ruth Padel, Oxford University's first female Professor of Poetry, speaks at a press conference at The Hay Festival, Hay-on-Wye, Wales, on Tuesday. Ben Birchall/AP. (Christian Science Monitor)
Disney sets out to make 'The Passion for kids' May 29, 2009
If the Israeli-Palestinian conflict cannot be resolved no other problems in the world will ever be solved, Archbishop Desmond Tutu told an audience at the Hay Festival last night. A rare moment in American television history the passing of the baton in The Tonight Show - will come tonight as Jay Leno steps down as the king of late night talk. (Yahoo News -- 'The Passion of the Christ')
Desmond Tutu backs Zimbabwe May 29, 2009
Page last updated at 21:40 GMT, Thursday, 28 May 2009 22:40 UK. Tutu in Hay appeal for Zimbabwe. (BBC News -- Africa)
More Than Wordsworth: Oxford's Sex ScandalDirty e-mails; sexual harassment; what's happening at the University of Oxford? May 27, 2009
Ruth Padel, right, Oxford University's first female professor of poetry, speaks at a press conference at The Hay Festival, Hay-on-Wye, Wales, Tuesday, May 26, 2009, when she explained her resignation after acknowledging she had helped publicize charges that her rival for the post, Derek Walcott, shown in this file photo, left, had sexually harassed a former student. (Getty Images/AP Photo). (ABC News)
Oxford poet resigns over vote row May 26, 2009
" She said she would make a full statement in person at the Hay Festival of Literature, in Powys, on Tuesday morning. 'Scurrilous campaign'Professor Padel was elected with 297 votes cast by Oxford graduates and academic staff, making her the first woman to take up the role since its creation in 1708. One of those who had nominated her, AC Grayling, the Professor of Philosophy at Birkbeck College, told BBC Radio 4's The World Tonight she was right to step down. "It would have been really... (BBC News -- Entertainment)
Writer attacks city redevelopment May 24, 2009
Jenkins, now chairman of the National Trust, told the Hay Festival planners should have decided just the opposite. He criticised the new Welsh assembly building as an "effete tent which looks just like it has arrived from Arabia". (BBC News -- UK)
Unseen Kennedys May 21, 2009
Rarely seen informal images of the Kennedys in London during the 1930s have been released ahead of Robert Kennedy Jr's appearance at the Hay Festival. Here, the children ride an elephant at Regent's Park Zoo. (BBC News -- Americas)
Venice film festival shows the strain Feb 25, 2009
28 May 2008: One of our 21 most promising writers at the Hay festival talks about his debut novel and reads a short extract. 13 Sep 2004. (Yahoo News -- Film Awards)
